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Coventry in 1981 was a tinderbox of a city primed to explode. Youth unemployment was skyrocketing as factories shut. The...
1981 riots
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Shocking news this evening with the death of Terry Hall, lead singer in The Specials, at just 63. A great...
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The late 1970s saw some shocking racist attacks in east London. But it also witnessed the beginning of a fightback...
The Marxist Militant Tendency wielded huge influence in the Labour Party on Merseyside in the 1980s. It operated within the...
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Who was going to control the Merseyside police? The police themselves or the civilian local authority? That was a big...
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To what extent did poor relations between the community in Toxteth and the police on Merseyside lead to the summer...
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I'm going back in time to 1981 - a year when the first-term Thatcher government was looking at disaster in...
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In these blog posts I'm getting into my time machine and zooming back to 1981. That was the year I...
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In these blog posts, I'm casting my mind back to my first year at university in Liverpool. I arrived in...
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I went to university in Liverpool in 1981. It was just after the summer of riots that had swept through...
